Financial Volatility Quotes

There is little room for complacency, and it is important to guard against sporadic volatility in financial markets.

Greece's history in the drachma was an up-and-down history, a roller coaster.

The Federal Reserve - all of them - could be sitting on a barrel of dynamite, and then pouring gasoline on top of it, and then light a cigar with matches, throw the match into the gasoline, and then not notice that there is any danger.

The stock market is like a small row boat on a rough sea, bouncing around as it drifts, whereas the macro economy is like a large ocean liner, very ponderous and difficult to maneuver but without such a rough journey.

I've been telling anyone willing to listen that banks have a tendency to sit on time bombs while convincing themselves that they are conservative and nonvolatile.

The sheer drop in sterling since 2016 is only a taste of what's to come if we continue down the destructive route of a no-deal Brexit.

On a given day, you can have market fluctuations where prices fluctuate far more than the underlying economic value of the unit.

I saw someone lose $100 million in one night. When you watch that, as an owner-operator of a game, you realize that these numbers are incredibly unsustainable, incredibly unhealthy. So, I was not happy about this loss. It brought me no joy or adrenaline.

In markets, you have rich years, and you have less rich years.

It's public news my dad was up and down financially.

As I discovered, there is a great deal of similarity between a boom-bust process in the financial markets and the rise and fall of the Soviet system.

The bottom-line message of history is that if you're doubling and tripling your money in record time, you're also more likely to lose it all.

In a company like Gucci, you can lose millions and millions in a second.

A hyperactive stock market is the pickpocket of enterprise.

Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there.

When my father would come home from the track after a good day, the whole room would light up; it was fairyland. But when he lost, it was black. In our house, it was always either a wake ... or a wedding.

But we had a pretty diversified portfolio of businesses around the world and things tended to offset each other. But one or two years ago, we had a lot of things happening at the same time.

Share prices fluctuate more than share values.

Even Warren Buffet is allowed to have an awful year from time to time.

Irrational lenders come and go - mostly they go!

I myself saw Yahoo become a $100 billion company and then become a $10 billion company, so you always have to look at valuations with a grain of salt and understand it is a point-in-time measure.

Once I was making £10,000 for an hour's work, but there have been years where my promotional stuff has brought in only a few hundred.

I think one lesson we have to learn is that there's a lot more risk than we're giving credit to, a lot more what economist calls systematic risk.

Cooperation on the international level could help to solve the problem of sources of sharp capital flow volatility and its consequences.

By promising to intervene in vulnerable markets in the event of excessive financial volatility, the IMF, as the largest player, would reduce coordination problems among investors.